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Elemental Analysis

Director: Ali Younes, PhD

 

MISSION

The Elemental Analysis facility is located at Hunter College on the 13th floor of North building. The facility provides multi-elemental analysis services to all CUNY campuses, Memorial Sloan Kettering as well as outside parties. The mission of the facility is to perform a quantitative bulk elemental composition for a wide variety of sample types (solids, powder, liquids, and suspensions) of both macroscopic and tracer amounts with a detection limit close to 1 μg/L for certain elements. The facility is capable of determining more than 70 elements in seconds.

 

INSTRUMENATION

Perkin-Elmer Optima 7300 DV spectrometer system
Perkin-Elmer Optima 7300 DV spectrometer system

Analysis

Elements that can be quantified and measured employing Hunter elemental analysis facility

Elements that can be quantified and measured employing the facility.

The elemental analysis is performed employing an Inductively Coupled Plasma -Optical Emission spectroscopy of Optima 7300 DV. The instrument is equipped with dual viewing of the plasma and two solid-state detectors for offering a superior detection limits and true simultaneous measurements.